Biography

Jedda Purvis Kngwarreye is an Anmatyerre woman from Boundary Bore in the Utopia
Homelands, Central Australia. She is an artist (born in 1970) who enjoys using bold
and bright colours when depicting her plant totem, the Bush Yam. Jedda is the daughter of
Greeny Purvis Petyarre who is a senior artist and law man at Utopia, Greeny also paints Bush
Yam Dreamings but in a very different style to his daughters.
Jedda is from a family of artists, her sisters Judy and Jennifer also paint and her aunt is
Evelyn Pultara, winner of the Telstra General Painting award 2005. Jedda's work has
instant appeal and she consistently experiments with technique whilst maintaining a soft yet
colourful palette. It will be interesting to watch how her career as an artist progresses with
further exposure nationally and overseas.